NEWS BY CABLE.
NARROW ESCAPE OF CECIL RHODES.
Capetown, July 14. The Cape Transport Corps has arrived at Beira. The First Chamber at Pretoria has recinded the resolution preventing Catholics acting as officials of the Republic. In a recent engagement with the natives at Thaba, one of the number fired at Cecil Rhodes at a distance of only eight paces, and missed him.
THE PRESIDENCY.
New York, July 14.
Sewell, who has been nominated for the Vice-Presidency, is a wealthy shipowner and banker at Maine.
THE CORONATION DISASTER.
St Petersburg, July 14.
Vlassovsky, Prefect of Police, and Behr, chief organiser of the fete, have been committed for trial in connection with the sad loss of life shortly after the Czar’s Coronation.
FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT. Washington, July 14.
• Two trains collided at Longon in lowa, and twenty seven persons were killed, besides 51 injured.
SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
London, July 14
The sculling match for the championship of the world and £SOO a-side, between James Stanbury, of Australia, and 0. E. Harding, of England, took place on the Thames coarse to-day, and resulted in an easy win for Stanbury.
ATTEMPT TO MUEDER THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Paris, July 15
A dismissed municipal official fired two shots at President Faure, neither of which fortunately took effect. The would be assassin narrowly escaped being lynched by an indignant crowd.
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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 195, 17 July 1896, Page 2
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